page_title: Bricia Lopez
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Bricia Lopez / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Mama Rabbit in Las Vegas, Nevada.
context_page_description: Bricia Lopez is a Mexican-American restaurateur and author. Lopez is the co-owner of Guelaguetza, an Oaxacan restaurant in Los Angeles, California in the United States. Lopez is one of America's foremost authorities on Oaxacan culture and cuisine and is credited with helping to popularize mezcal in the United States. She also co-hosts the Super Mamás podcast with her sister, Paulina Lopez.
context_section_description: Lopez and her sister, Paulina, and brother, Fernando, took over ownership of Guelaguetza after their parents retired. The late L.A. Times food critic Jonathan Gold called the restaurant "The best Oaxacan restaurant in the United States". In 2015, she co-created the podcast Super Mamás with her sister, Paulina. In 2019, Lopez opened Mama Rabbit at the Park MGM in Las Vegas, Nevada. It claims to have the largest tequila and mezcal selection in the United States, with over 500 offerings. That same year, the cookbook Oaxaca: Home Cooking from the Heart of Mexico, written by Lopez and Javier Cabral, was published. It is the first cookbook published to be written by an Oaxacan person. The book has been named one of the top cookbooks of 2019 by Mother Jones, the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.
caption: Oaxacan-themed mural and slot machines at Mama Rabbit.
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